some full disk SOL 30 Jan 2014

[h0ughy]

i am admiring those Jupiter and Mars images in the forum - they are fantastic. oh well here is a bargain basement SOL image, sorry its not classy or full of colour and awe and wonder...............

lunt 60 SS with DMK51

the prom shot is pushed and i will be redoing it later - just wanted to show something current?

[h0ughy]

here is a basic white light in poor seeing

[h0ughy]

the story so far:
I was fortunate to be sick, and after visiting the doctor’s I managed to get home earlier than normal. This gave me a slightly larger window of opportunity than normal. After placating the family I snuck up the back to the observatory, and by this stage it was well after 5pm, that gave me around 55 minute until the sun brushed the palm tree in the neighbour’s yard. The seeing was very average to below average, but I kept at it as a whole mass of cloud from a cyclone in Queensland may come down and cover everything up for the next few days.

I undertook to do the Surface in HA first then try for the proms, and by this stage the afternoon was dragging on – I paid the price when trying to get the white light mosaic done. It’s the first successful one I have done, however I paid the price with the late afternoon sun and you can see the brightness change in the stitch up. Well it’s better than nothing ;)

While imaging I also managed to catch a plane in the Baader Solar wedge on the 127ED and the Lunt60. as well as catching sunspot AR1967 unleashed a strong M6-class solar flare (see spaceweather.com)

SO here they are – processed by a blind man with no talent in a china shop with buttery fingers……….

[RB]

:lol:
That's looking on the bright side of life.

Well I don't know why you're putting yourself down, these are lovely.
Better than what I can do.

BTW, can't wait to see first light using the "FLI FLI me away" OSC camera.
Might need to coax you to some darker skies for that though.

:P

RB

[astronobob]

Pretty grouse images there David :thumbsup:
I doubt much of coastal QLD has seen the sun for last week or so.
AR #1967 looking rather massive :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

:P thats very cruel RB - be the OSC for the travel ssetup - will work on the hyperstar as well as any of the ed80s i take ;)

[h0ughy]

i think it is larger than when it went around last time:question:

[h0ughy]

ook stealing from spaceweather:

STRONG M-FLARE AND CME: Yesterday, Jan. 30th, big sunspot AR1967 unleashed a strong M6-class solar flare. The explosion sent a CME racing away from the blast site faster than 1400 km/s (3 million mph): movie. The cloud appears to have an Earth-directed component, and could deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field on Feb 1st

well for my shots i did pick up the beginning.......the last shot was taken 10 min earlier

[h0ughy]

slightly overcooked - trying to wring out any detail

and i threw in the big prom

[Star Catcher]

Nice work David. I like my images well done, the W/L is not too overcooked for me. :)
Ted

[h0ughy]

:rofl: thanks